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W. EDWARDS.

IMPLEMENT FOR CLEANING MACHINERY. No. 323,502. Patented Aug. 4, 1885.

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WILLIAM EDWARDS, OF GLENDIVE, MONTANA TERRITORY.

IMPLEMENT FOR CLEANING MACHINERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,502, dated August4, 1885.

Application filed January 5, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, XVILLIAM EDWARDS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Glendive, in the county of Dawson and Territory of Montana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Implements forCleaning Machinery; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a partof this specification, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my improved implement;Fig. 2, a detail view in perspective of that portion of the implementused as a cleaner, and Fig. 3 a similar view of the scraper.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and practicalimplement that can be conveniently used to clean the eccentrics,cross'heads, guides, feed-pipes, links, driving boxes and wheels, andother parts of alocomotive or other engine; and it consists in thegeneral construction of the implement, substantially as shown in thedrawings, and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the cleaner, and B thescraper, and when connected together the cleaner forms the handle of theimplement, as shown in Fig. 1.

The cleaner and scraper are formed of any suitable metal, but preferablyof steel, the cleaner A being of any desirable length and width.

The scraper B is formed with a flange, a, along its outer edge forscraping the drivingwheels and other parts of the engine. The side edgesof the scraper are formed with arches b c, which are different in size,to fit over the the convex surface of the feedpipes, rods, and otherportions of an engine of like form, where a fiat or straight edgescraper could not be successfully brought into use.

In order to provide means for conveniently attaching the cleaner A tothe scraper B, the latter is preferably formed with two elongated slots,(1, of a length equal to the width of the cleaner, said cleaner beinginserted or passed through the slots, as shown in Fig. 1, thus formingthe handle to the scraper.

The curved end 0 of the cleaner A prevents the scraper from becomingaccidentally detached, and when the straight edge f of the scraper isrequired for use the scraper is simply reversed, so as to bring thestraight edge to the outer end of the cleaner A.

Every provision is made in the construction of the scraper B to cleanthe exterior surface of almost any portion of an engine, and, ifpreferred, a series of arches of varying sizes may be made on each ofthe side edges of the scraper in order to adapt it to difierent sizerods and pipes; or the arches may be made very shallow, which willattain the same object.

The curved end 6 of the cleaner A, although serving the purpose ofpreventing the scraper B from becoming detached, its especial andimportant object is to adapt it for use in cleaning the driving boxesand wedges of the engine where the scraper could not be used owing toits size and shape.

The means employed for attaching the cleaner A and scraper B together isnot considered material, as any other means may be substituted whichcomes within ordinary mechanical skill without departing from theprinciple of my invention.

The cleaner A is bifurcated at its end, as shown at g, to receive andhold the waste, consisting of the refuse of cotton and wool, used asswabs for wiping machinery. The waste, after being taken up by thebifurcated end gfrom the main bulk of waste, is wrapped around thenotched portion h, which holds it in place sufficiently to force itbetween the co centrics and other parts of the engine.

The above-described implement is equally applicable to all classes ofmachinery, and can be used on stationary as well as locomotive engines.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An implement for cleaning machinery, consisting of a fiat metal plateor bar bifurcated and notched at one end, and having detachablyconnected at its opposite end a scrap er, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth. 7

In testimony that I claim the above I have I0 hereunto subscribed myname in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM EDWARDS.

Witnesses:

O. A. NEALE, CHAS. J. WILLIAMsoN.

